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Looks like we can expect some improvements later this week or early next week in the XP earn rate of both adventuring and tradeskills in EQ2, as well as some other fixes. Today’s complete Test Update Notes can be found on the forums, but we excerpt a few below… GENERAL Rejoice! Exiles can now use the shared bank! Exiles can now change suffix titles! SOE Live Request: Players may now drag game commands such as “Summon Mount,” “Melee Attack,” “Ranged Attack” etc. into the Edit Macro window to create a step with the appropriate command. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION...
DGC Wants Feedback
In order to institute Quality of Life tweaks and changes to Itemization, Class Balance, and overall gameplay, the EQ2 team launched Focused Feedback threads a few weeks back on a number of topics. We still have time to post our comments in these threads: Focused Feedback – Fighters Focused Feedback – Priests Focused Feedback – Mages Focused Feedback – Scouts Focused Feedback – Tradeskills Focused Feedback – Itemization Focused Feedback – UI and General Gameplay Focused Feedback – PvP From Caith on the EQ2 Forums: Update: We will be keeping all focused feedback thread open until January 5th, 2015...
Last year, Frostfell only received a short window of testing, so we’re happy to report that this highly-anticipated annual event has appeared early on the Test servers. Live Event maestro and Senior Designer Nathan “Kaitheel“ has this report: Frostfell is now active on Test! There’s plenty of Frostfell cheer throughout Norrath this season! Gigglegibbers and Frostfell elves are busy celebrating the holiday within the player cities, and encouraging everyone to visit the Frostfell Wonderland Village, accessed through the Magic Closets in Qeynos Province District, Freeport, Haven, Kelethin, Neriak, Gorowyn and New Halas. There you can assist Frestishan, Candice Cheriweth,...
Looks like SOE is expanding its Player Direct program which seeks to highlight player-made content such as fansites, Youtube videos, Twitch streams, and more on official SOE communication channels. From Colette “Dexella“ on the EQ2 Forums: Every player has a unique experience, story, and point of view, especially when it comes to games. The types of players who create streams, videos, articles, memes, and more share a deeper, richer story with their communities. That is the heart of our newly expanded Player Direct program.
Today is the last day to run the Altar of Malice solo quest lines, heroic zones, or do the tradeskill questline and get rewards for your live characters. You Beta Believe These Rewards are Awesome From Afista on the EQ2 Forums: The Beta server will be coming down tomorrow morning with the game update. It will not be coming back online after tomorrow’s All-Access launch of Altar of Malice.
From Afista on the EQ2 Forums: Beta testing for the Altar of Malice expansion is in full swing and now open for everyone to try out! Joining the Beta server for testing is a great chance to take a look at all of the incredible things coming with Altar of Malice, and also an excellent opportunity to give us your feedback about the expansion before it launches on November 25, 2014. In addition to seeing these gorgeous lands before launch, you can also take some loot home to your live characters just for participating in the Beta action! Take a...
EQ2 Programmer Maevianiu has been working over the last few months on some significant performance tweaks to the EQ2 client and server, including at least one change that touched 10 year old code. As a part-time semi-amateur coder, that scares me deeply. So I’m gonna say it’s uberimportant that players login to Beta and test everything out to make sure these changes don’t impact any existing systems. It won’t just be a testing session though as it looks like there’s going to be quite a turnout of EQ2 devs on the Beta server today! From Maevianiu: We have our first...
We did not promote this news at the time, but there are a number of cool fixes on the Test server which should hopefully go live after SOE Live. Chief among these are significant optimization of the EQ2 client so players should get smoother framerates. Also, players had assembled a list of quest starters that, through revamps and NPC shuffling were no longer attainable. These plus many more bug fixes and a few nice convenience features are now sitting on Test. It’s almost like one of the big bug stomps we used to see. Here are just some of...
Not everyone reads the EQ2 Forums, but those who do have likely had their fill of disruptive, attention-seeking posters who derail one discussion after another. Further, such posters cherish the knowledge that they can push the buttons of other players and goad them into confrontation, and then laugh when well-intentioned players trying to confront this behavior are banned for their trouble. Some would say to just use the Ignore feature, and that works for the individual, but as someone who has administrated forums for 12 years, I can tell you that such posters can be very effective at poisoning even...
Not content with bringing a monthly Webcast to EverQuest II, EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn is going above and beyond and giving us a second mid-month pure Q&A session to get to the questions that didn’t fit in last week’s program, and any other questions people have! From the EQ2 Forums: This month on EverQuest IIInsider Q&A: Cast: Margaret Krohn, Kyle Vallee, Michael Ganz, and Nathan McCall! Q&A: We’re going to be answering your questions LIVE! Ask about anything! if you can’t make it, feel free to leave us a question in the discussion thread or on Twitter, Facebook, and or Google Plus by Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 at 10:00...
On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 at 2:00 PM PDT, EQ2’s new community manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn (aka PurrfectStorm), hosted the first EverQuest II Insider livecast on Twitch. This 1 hour broadcast included EQ brand manager Adam Key, Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Chris Garlick, Gary Daugherty, and Nathan “Kaitheel” McCall. Alas, a recording of the livecast was not preserved either by SOE or Twitch (due to a settings glitch), so this episode joins Doctor Who and other vital shows as missing presumed wiped. That said, a few resourceful players who watched the Livecast were good enough to take notes and so we can...
From Kyle “Kander” Vallée on the EQ2 Forums: We are opening a new area here on the forums for the sole purpose of getting raid feedback quickly and easily in order to assist us to make changes, tweaks quicker and more effectively and vastly improve future raid content. This area will be by invite only and will be for raid leaders and raiders who are participating in the upper echelon of raid content. This is area will be a direct link to the development team. We want it to feel open and constructive. The goal is to have a limited...
One of the most intriguing things about the recent Tears of Veeshan expansion is, there are at least seven different “Stat Packages” for quested and dropped gear. Not only are these items intended to have their stats fiddled with through Reforging, but most restrictions on equipping items have been dropped, save for the armor’s material (Cloth, Leather, Chain, Plate). This plethora of choice has been a blessing for most, but a curse for some with unlucky dice. When an Advanced Solo or Heroic mission is completed, each player receives an Ornate Chest with an item having one of the following “stat packages”: DPS...
This was posted last week, but better late than never. 😉 From the EQ2 Forums: Testing for EverQuest II’s 10th expansion, Tears of Veeshan, is in full swing on the Beta server. Not only can you get a preview of what’s to come by heading over to take a look, but also earn rewards that you can claim on your live character! There are three separate rewards that you can earn for testing different facets of the expansion: [eq2u]Blessed of Veeshan Reward Bundle[/eq2u] is for testing overland quests in Vesspyr Isles. [eq2u]Thread Jumper’s Reward Bundle[/eq2u] is granted for testing...
From the EQ2 Forums: BETA TESTING REWARDS If you’ve earned a Beta reward bundle, you may now claim them on live (via /claim under the ‘Beta Reward’ section). Note: You may only have one of each beta bundle reward in your claim window at a time. Once you claim that bundle, you may then earn another of that same bundle. GENERAL Fixed a bug causing you to not be able to research your spells if you have a lower level player targeted. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Paladin Fixed a situation where a Paladin’s Marr’s Favor could critically heal them....
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Kander posted this on the EQ2Forums: Greetings and welcome to the Tears of Veeshan open Beta! First, let me thank you all for choosing to come and help us. We are grateful for your time, and will see that you are justly rewarded! We have a lot to test with this expansion, and we appreciate all of you who are helping us. You can access Vesspyr: the Eternal Broodlands via the dragon rings or druid rings. All heroic and advanced solo content is accessible directly from specialized entrances in the overland. Here is the zone list: Nexus Core [Heroic]...
From the EQ2 Forums: Open Beta for EverQuest II: Tears of Veeshan will open tomorrow, on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. This is a great chance for players to check out the new Channeler class and new dragon-themed Alternative Advancement (AA) systems for each archetype. We’d love your feedback on these features, as well as other parts of the expansion! Beta will last until the launch of Tears of Veeshan onTuesday, November 12, 2013! How to copy your Live and/or Test character over to the Beta server: You can click the ‘Beta Copy’ button on the character create screen to copy the currently...
Back: Carlos “Gninja” , Holly “Windstalker” , Akil “Lyndro” Front: Kyle “Kander” , Nandy “Zoltaroth” , Mike “Xelgad“
So Kinya from the Polish EQ2 fansite Babagra.pl caught something during the SOE Live 2013 keynote specifically the EverQuest II segment — that the Channeler class will not only be playtested here on Saturday in a 4 hour open workshop/panel, but that the class will be available on the EQ2 Beta server. The Beta server is currently down, but hopefully it is brought up at least for Friday-Sunday: @EQ2Wire Windstalker said “we also are openning Channeler on Beta during SOE Live for evryone to try”… — Kinya (@BabaGraPL) August 2, 2013
From Zoltaroth‘s twitter: @zoltaroth: Working on the network / lag issues in #EQ2 as fast as we can Forum thread is here: http://t.co/GCkv4dykHc if you have any tracerts plz post
Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns has now hit the EQ2 Beta server and here are the Update Notes. Game Update 67 is expected to go live July 23, 2013. Fabled Dungeons Fabled Clefts of Rujark (accessed from Sinking Sands) Fabled Scornfeather’s Roost (accessed from within Fabled Clefts of Rujark) Fabled Djinn Masters Prism (accessed from the ‘Fabled Dungeon Portal’ in Pillars of Flame) Fabled Pedestal of Sky (accessed from the ‘Fabled Dungeon Portal’ in Pillars of Flame) Three New Contested Avatar Raids: Pit yourself against three new contested avatars in the overlands – Prexus, Solusek Ro, and Drinal! Arena...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Want to help out? We are updating our Test server with GU67 content next Monday, July 8! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) July 2, 2013
There have been some changes to the SOE Live 2013 schedule, including some reshuffling of LoN, DCUO, and Dragon’s Prophet panels. Most notably, the addition of 3 2 new panels: Friday 5-6pm — EverQuest II: Super Secret Testing Session 1 Saturday 2-6pm — EverQuest II: Super Secret Testing Sunday Noon-1pm — EverQuest II: Super Secret Testing Feedback Panel
The Test server was updated last night with a number of tweaks, fixes, and improvements. First up, the Housing and Leaderboards windows have been merged into a new megawindow. From Ahma: We’ve added a new window: Housing and Leaderboards. This UI element, which can be accessed via the EQII menu and from the Housing and Leaderboards buttons to the right of the EQII menu, combines some old windows and allows easy access to many housing related features. It allows you to manipulate all your current houses, browse and buy new houses, visit houses associated with the current zone you...
A few years ago, travel within EQ2 was only slightly arduous. Players often had to travel to Nek Forest, Thundering Steppes, or Moors of Ykesha to then bounce off to places farther afield. EQ2Wire even published a World Travel Map (and gave away copies at Fan Faire) which suggested the easiest means of travel. Then over time, recast times on Guild Hall and Call Home spells got shorter, and travel restrictions lessened. Then came a major streamlining which eliminated all bells (and carpets) in favor of a single universal World Travel Bell on almost every dock which will take you almost anywhere in...